Search to resume for bodies of 2 teens missing in White Oak Bayou

Updated 5:11 pm, Sunday, September 22, 2013

Search efforts will resume Sunday for the bodies of two teens who disappeared in the White Oak Bayou during Friday's storms.

Harris County Sheriff's Office deputies plan to use jet skis and possibly boats to search the shallow areas of the bayou near the 7200 block of Fairbanks North Houston, authorities said.

Witnesses reported seeing a 2000 Mazda B2500 pickup truck with two occupants drive off a bridge into the bayou near Fairbanks North Houston and Emmott roads in northwest Harris County around midnight Friday.

An 18-year-old male driver and his 17-year-old female passenger were reportedly in the pickup, which was recovered about three hours later. No bodies were inside the truck at that time.

"He has so many more years to live," Michelle Perez said. "We have to find him."

Swift currents and debris kept Harris County Sheriff's Office marine unit divers from searching Saturday in the bayou, which was estimated to be 20 feet deep at the time of the accident, said Sgt. Doug Hudson with the Harris County Sheriff's Office marine division.

"It's just too dangerous," he said.

About a dozen deputies on foot combed miles of the bayou banks Saturday afternoon, but were not able to locate bodies. The recovery effort was temporarily suspended around 4 p.m.

Northwest Harris County received about 6 inches of rain, making it one of the hardest hit areas by Friday's storm. Rainfall totals ranged from 7 inches in Liberty County to just 1.5 inches in other parts of the region.